Essential Websites for Educational Leaders in the 21st Century

By James Lerman

If you are striving to improve schools, you're an educational leader. It doesn't matter what your formal position is, or what kind of school you're trying to make better, it's the effort to improve schools that puts you in a leadership position. Parents, teachers, students, administrators, graduate students, elected and appointed officials, agency staff, and concerned community members can all fit the definition.

Educational leaders have voracious needs for information. On any given day, you might need instant access to resources that address curriculum, policy, grants, research, teaching, education news, law, technology, school finance, professional development, community relations, testing, or crisis and disaster intervention, just to name a few.

In Essential Websites for Twenty-First-Century Educational Leaders James Lerman describes and gives instant access to more than 300 of the very best websites focused on the information needs of people working to improve schools. He identifies the 25 most vital categories of knowledge needed by educational leaders and gives the best of the Net in each category. Readers will find this book a treasure trove of exceptionally high quality information, guidance, support, resources, and tools-all organized for easy access and immediate usefulness.

Essential Websites also includes a CD-ROM that enables users to jump immediately from the book's table of contents right to the corresponding chapter and from each listed website out instantly to its live location on the Internet. What could take you hours or days to search for in the past, if you could locate the information at all, can now be found in seconds.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578861306
• ISBN13: 9781578861309
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: R & L Education
• Length: 120 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

(London) Times Education Supplement loved it!

The book was reviewed by Gerald Haigh in the Feb. 17, 2005 issue. Excerpts: "Astonishingly helpful" "Most of us will be grateful for this" "A big bonus...is that you get the book on CD-Rom, too, which not only makes the index easy to search, but also means you don't have to type in the web addresses, which are sometimes long and complicated."

Helpful resources for educators and parents

I love resources -- especially Internet resources! Besides being free (most of the time), they're readily accessible and provide the public with more information than they can probably handle :). For those involved in education and improving our children's schools -- whether you're a parent, teacher, principal, or higher up in the world of education, a listing of resources for educational websites is greatly welcomed. The book, "Essential Websites for Educational Leaders in the 21st Century," by James Lerman, provides such a listing. In his book, James conveniently lists over 300 websites relating in some way to the area of education. These websites have been researched, gathered, and organized into 25 categories, such as General Reference, Homework Help, Projects, and Young Children. In order to make the list, each website had to pass certain guidelines so that readers would have the best possible selection. James describes each website, explains what makes each an important resource for education, and tells how educational leaders might make use of each resource. MyParenTime.com highly recommends this book -- what a wonderful collection of websites, not only for those involved in the field of education, but also for those just interested in learning, and in ways, making their lives easier with the knowledge found at these websites. The information in this book is very useful, well-organized, and easily accessible. We are proud to say that one of our websites, PrintableChecklists.com, has been selected for inclusion in this book. Thank you James, for providing a book that will make life easier for educators, parents and others involved in the area of education.